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Offline fmayhewubh

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Serial Tablet
« on: March 08, 2013, 05:46:25 PM »
simple question? Has anyone actually gotten a serial tablet working?

Im working on M-275 tablets. with the input-tablet-touchscreen drivers, xorg, and the xorg.conf.d from a working tablet im not getting cursor movement. the device (dev/ttyS1) gives some output in cat with some movements across the screen.


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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2013, 05:51:51 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
Have you looked through   /var/log/Xorg.0.log   for possible clues or errors?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2013, 06:01:56 PM »
looks like logging is not setup. but that is a good idea. do you know how to get logging in TC, if so i will setup and retry

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 06:08:25 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
If the file is not there then Xorg is probably not running. Does the first line in your  /home/tc/.xsession  file
say Xorg or xvesa?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2013, 07:56:56 PM »
Quick search brought up
http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?143956-Linux-on-a-gateway-M275-Tablet-PC&s=3d8a36510a2e55fce36a6135cd871619&p=835984#post835984
already have that, as a 50-wacom.conf

Hi fmayhewubh
If the file is not there then Xorg is probably not running. Does the first line in your  /home/tc/.xsession  file
say Xorg or xvesa?


well, what do you know. XVersa. I've got Xorg 7.5 downloaded so how do i configure this? change my Xorg.conf.versa to a Xorg.conf ?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2013, 08:03:54 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
Copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make any changes you need to that.
Add the xorg.conf file to your backup. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then run startx
If Xorg plays nice with your hardware, you'll see your desktop.


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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2013, 08:23:08 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
Copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make any changes you need to that.
Add the xorg.conf file to your backup. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then run startx
If Xorg plays nice with your hardware, you'll see your desktop.



Xvesa is still in the .xsession (xvesa -br -screen 1024x786x32... etc) should i change this or will xorg set itself?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2013, 08:32:57 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
I don't remember what makes the change in .xsession. Change the first line to:
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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2013, 10:11:51 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
I don't remember what makes the change in .xsession. Change the first line to:
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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &

still no input from pen. i cant seem to remove xorg.conf.vesa it keeps coming back

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2013, 10:20:54 PM »
Hi fmayhewubh
xorg.conf.vesa is just a sample, Xorg does not look at it. Is Xorg running? Open a terminal and run  top
Is Xorg or xvesa listed?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2013, 08:29:56 AM »
Xorg is running. ^.^
pen still shows no action... and an
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lsmod | grep wacom
 shows nothing (maybe i am missing the wacom driver :/ )
are there excess tce's needed for module loading.

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2013, 08:31:46 AM »
also my udev might not have wacom rules.

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2013, 10:03:33 AM »
Hi fmayhewubh
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lsmod | grep wacom

 shows nothing (maybe i am missing the wacom driver :/ )
Maybe you need to install   input-tablet-touchscreen-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz ?

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Re: Serial Tablet
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2013, 10:32:22 AM »
input-tablet-touchscreen-3.0.21 is downloaded and set as onboot.